*Aria's POV

Three days after the investigation interview, I was beginning to understand how condemned prisoners must feel during their final weeks. Every conversation stopped when I entered a room. Every official-looking person who walked through the corridors made my heart skip. Every unexpected knock on the door could be the end of everything.

It was exhausting.

"You're going to wear a hole in the floor," Caspian observed as I paced between our beds for the hundredth time that morning.

"I ...